It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

There is a legend ( Hawthorne records it in his `` English Notebooks ''.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

2 ) The concept that an `` American national folklore '' exists is itself probably another propagandistic legend.

Like Philadelphia's late Dr. Albert C. Barnes who kept his own great collection closed to the general public ( Time, Jan. 2 ), Thompson, at 61, is something of a legend in his own lifetime.

The mule is honored at Benson, N.C. ( Sept. 22, 23 ) and at Boron, Calif. ( Sept. 24 thru Oct. 1 ), while the legend of the Maid of the Mist is celebrated at Niagara Falls through the 24th.

The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.

The first mention of " The Ashes " in Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack occurs in 1905, while Wisdens first account of the legend is in the 1922 edition.

Along with the Edicts of Ashoka, his legend is related in the later 2nd-century

There is a legend that as an infant, a swarm of bees settled on his face while he lay in his cradle, leaving behind a drop of honey.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

According to legend, Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death.

" Given that Thomas Aquinas died six years before Albertus Magnus ' death, this legend as stated is unlikely.

This legend of Trebeta as having founded Trier is also found in Godfrey of Viterbo's Pantheon ( 1185 ) and several other German chronicles of the 12th or 13th century, including the works of Sigebert of Gembloux.

The legend is also found cited in compendiums of historical sources from later periods, for example Gottfried Leibniz's Scriptures rerum Brunsvicensium ( 1710 ) and the Anthologia veterum latinorum epigrammatum et poematum ( 1835 ).

* The White Lady is a type of female ghost reportedly seen in rural areas and associated with some local legend of tragedy.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

An Urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true.

The opera Les Danaïdes ( The Danaids ) is a five-act tragédie lyrique ; the plot was based on an ancient Greek legend that had been the basis for the first play in a trilogy by Aeschylus, entitled The Suppliants.

Many poems and plays, and two operas ( Les Abencérages, by Luigi Cherubini, and L ' esule di Granata, by Giacomo Meyerbeer ) mention the legend, but the whole story is doubtful, because the best historians do not mention it.

Amr Diab is one of the top singers in the Arab world and considered a living legend by many of his fans in the Arab world.

The legend is linked to an idea in the Book of Revelation ( 3: 12 and 21: 2 ) describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus establishes a new Jerusalem.

The most famous legend associated with Marathon is that of the runner Pheidippides / Philippides bringing news to Athens of the battle, which is described below.

Furthermore, frescoes and murals dealing with death had a long tradition and were widespread, e. g. the legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead: on a ride or hunt, three young gentlemen meet three cadavers ( sometimes described as their ancestors ) who warn them, Quod fuimus, estis ; quod sumus, vos eritis ( What we were, you are ; what we are, you will be ).

The Principia Discordia states that her parents may be as described in Greek legend, or that she may be the daughter of Void.

The second most popular theory about the origin and sense of Mieszko's name can be traced to the very old legend, firstly described by Gallus Anonymus, according to which Mesco ( the Latinized form used by the earliest sources ) was blind during his first seven years of life.

Wertico's playing has been compared to that of an Impressionist painter ; he has also been described as " an inspired madman ", " a restless innovator ", " a true legend of jazz drums ", " a master of drumming insanity " and " a genius of the sticks ".

Koji Kondo, who has been described as the " greatest legend in the video game audio industry " because of his work for Nintendo, has composed much of the music for the series, although the last game for which he was solely responsible for the composition of the soundtrack was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

An eighteenth-century pamphlet alleging that a woman was tricked into eating the ashes of her lover's heart could be described as a contemporary legend with respect to the eighteenth century.

Morgan le Fay was described as a powerful sorceress and antagonist of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere in the Arthurian legend.

One vase, for instance, depicts him as sinking down into the earth, upright, and buried at the waist ; this legend is described in the Metamorphoses as well, and implies that Caeneus is falling directly into Tartarus.

The Sabines divided into two populations just after the founding of Rome, which is described by Roman legend.

In the legend of the bread-fruit tree, Papa, one of the ancestors of the people living in all the islands now known as Polynesia, is described as a kupua.

The Caribbean islanders described a mythical land of Beimeni or Beniny ( whence Bimini ), a land of wealth and prosperity, to the Spanish, which became conflated with the fountain legend.

The couple settled at the manor of Huntingfield, described as " enchanting, with a legend for every turret ... A splendid gallery ran the length of the house, the Great Hall was built around six massive oaks which supported the roof as they grew ".

The legend of the stone was also compared to the biblical history of the Temple of Solomon and the rejected cornerstone described in Psalm 118.

Also in 1604, Philips Numann, clerk of the archbishop of Mechelen, described the legend of Scherpenheuvel in his Historie der Mirakelen ( History of Miracles ).

The record producer John Culshaw described Monteux as " that rarest of beings – a conductor who was loved by his orchestras ... to call him a legend would be to understate the case.

Hammer and point work is the technique used in working stone, in use at least since Roman times, as it is described in the legend of Pygmalion, and even earlier, the ancient Greek sculptors used it from c. 650 BC.

The song recounts the legend of the hunter who captured a squonk, as described above, but the creature was described as having a retiring disposition ( not fearsome ).

The translation of " Nihon Shoki Vol. 6 " was added and Amenohiboko is described in Nihon Shoki as a maternal predecessor of Empress Jingū, whose controversial legend says that she defeated Silla in the 5th Century.

One noted Japanese scholar described the tale as the country's " national legend.

But also American historians of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as John Fiske and Lewis Hanke, have been described as going too far towards idealizing Spanish history in their attempts to counter the Black legend.

The legend of the Blarney stone was described in A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue by Francis Grose, printed 1785.